Latch



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. LATCH.

No. 577,818. Patented Feb. 23, 1897.

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WILLIAM CRONK, OF HAVANA, YORK.

LATCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 577,818, dated February 23, 189 7.

Application filed June 18, 1896. Serial No. 596,061. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LWILLIAM GRoNK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Havana, in the county of Schuyler and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Latches; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to a combined handle, latch, and hasp adapted for use upon doors or gates, whether hinged or sliding; and the object of my invention is to so construct these devices that they are reversible and may be applied to a door or gate on either the right or the left hand side thereof.

With this object in view my invention consists of the several details of construction and combination of parts hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a sliding door with my invention applied thereto; Fig. 2, a perspective View of the combined handle, latch, and hasp detached. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the opposite side of the door shown in Fig. 1 with myinvention applied thereto. Fig. 4; is a per spective view, on an enlarged scale, of the devices applied to the door.

1 represents the base-plate of the latch and handle, provided with suitable openings for the passage of screws 2, by which it is attached to a door or gate. Each end of the base-plate 1 is bent outwardly at a right a11- gle to the main portion to form the projecting lugs or cars 3 3. These ears are each provided with an open-ended slot at its upper edge close to the base-plate, as indicated at 4., for the reception of the latch, and with an opening in their lower portions, as indi- I cated at 5, for a purpose to be hereinafter 8 to the base-plate 1 midway of the length of the latter, and when the latch is turned to a horizontal position either to the right or to the left it will be supported in one of the open-ended slots 4, with its end projecting beyond the ear 3. The end of the latch is rounded off at its upper and lower edges, as indicated at 9. Notches 10 are also formed in each end of the latch.

The keeper 11 is formed like the base-plate 1, that is, it has the base-plate 12, adapted to be secured to the door-frame, and the ears 13 13, bent outwardly at right angles thereto. These ears are also provided with open-ended slots 14 and openings 15.

From the foregoing description it is obvious that the operation of my device will be the same whether it is applied to the right or to the left side of the door, and that when the door is closed the opening 5 in one of the ears 3 will register with the opening 15 in one of the ears l3. and 13 will therefore form a hasp, and a padlock 16 can be inserted through the openings 5 and 15 to lock the parts together. lVhen the device is applied to a sliding door, the rounded portions 9 of the latch will cause it to slide up over the bottom of the slot let until the notch 10 is opposite the ear 13, when the latch will drop into place.

Referring now particularly to Figs. 3 and 4, 17 represents a plate secured to the inside of the door or gate and bent outwardly at a right angle to form the handhold 18. A lever 19 is pivoted to the edge of the door or gate, one end of which engages the lower edge of the latch 6, and its other end is bent at a right angle to form the finger-hold 20. The lever 19 is so pivoted that the end which engages the latch has a tendency to drop down, and to limit this movement the plate 17 is provided with a projection 21, extending beyond the edge of the door and engaging the inner portion of the lever 19, whereby the outer portion of the lever will normally be in engagement with the latch, but will not interfere with its up and down movements. These devices are for the purpose of unlatching the door or gate from the inside, and if it be a sliding door the handhold 18 serves as a convenient means to enable the operator to slide the door.

I-Iaving described my invention, What I The adjacent ears 3 claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. In a reversible latch, a base-plate adapted to be secured. to a door and having its ends bent outwardly at a right angle to form ears, said ears each having an open-ended slot in its upper edge, combined with a keeper consisting of a base-plate adapted to be secured to a door-frame, and having its ends bent outwardly at a right angle to form ears, said 2. The combination with a door, of alatch pivoted on its outer side and projecting beyond the edge of the door, a lever pivoted to the edge of said door, the part on one side of the pivot engaging the latch and the other part projecting inwardly beyond the door and being bent to form a finger-hold, the part engaging the latch having a normal tendency to drop down, and a plate secured to the inner side of the door having a projection to cars each having an open-ended slot initseengage the lever to limit the downward moveupper edge, and a combined latch and handle pivoted on the base-plate on the door and provided with a notch in each of its edges to engage the open-ended slots in the ears of its supporting-plate and the adjacent ear of the keeper when the door is closed, substantially as described.

Witnesses:

E. G. CRoNK, MINOR HOWELL. 

